Lebbeus Woods

Robert Caplin / For the New York Times

As an experimental architect, Woods inspired colleagues and architecture students with radically inventive designs and installations that evoked futuristic worlds and cityscapes. Though his designs were rarely constructed, they were considered widely influential and were exhibited in museums around the world. He was 72. Full obituaryNotable deaths of 2012

As an experimental architect, Woods inspired colleagues and architecture students with radically inventive designs and installations that evoked futuristic worlds and cityscapes. Though his designs were rarely constructed, they were considered widely influential and were exhibited in museums around the world. He was 72. Full obituaryNotable deaths of 2012 (Robert Caplin / For the New York Times)

As an experimental architect, Woods inspired colleagues and architecture students with radically inventive designs and installations that evoked futuristic worlds and cityscapes. Though his designs were rarely constructed, they were considered widely influential and were exhibited in museums around the world. He was 72. Full obituaryNotable deaths of 2012